I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.